Look what appeared in our living room this morning.
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From the monthly archives:
April 2008
In the mid-1980s my publisher told me about the gay choral movement. Several of his composers had written for the chorus in New York and he encouraged me to make connections to try to join that world. It didn’t happen until 1991 when the late Leonard Raver (organist to the NY Phil) recommended to Jon [...]
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Here is a brilliant comeback by Larry David for those moments where you are trapped with someone shouting into a bluetooth headset, oblivious that s/he is annoying everyone.
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In the blogosphere, rankings get made from time to time. Scott Spiegelberg seems to have been the instigator a few years back in so-called classical music blogs. I have reblogged a new set of rankings by Classical Convert. Visit CC to get all the links for the blogs below. I notice that very few of [...]
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The popular TV shows, American Idol and Project Runway, have taught us the reality of “not winning” in useful ways. Useful in that we watch and process rejection and harsh criticism on television, an activity that, with any luck, can help us get through the pain of “not winning” when we ourselves don’t “win.”
We watch [...]
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Daniel just put a down payment on our next car, an Aptera. Here is the note he sent to our family:
After close to four years of being a single-car household, Roger and I have decided to reserve an Aptera in hopes it will be our second car in 2009. The plug-in hybrid model costs less [...]
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Composers, on hearing their new work taking shape, are like expectant fathers. There is a point where where they can only sit and listen: it is in the hands of the performers. Every mistake is amplified a hundred-fold (but you must NOT let on that you know it, because often times only the composer and [...]
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